Also at Lainey: The Brangelina divorce continues to seem v. v. contentious. This piece is also really interesting. To wit: “Gossip is a media game. And the people who play it at the highest level – both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – understand this better than most. Right now, Brad appears to be playing it better than Angelina who is very, very rarely outmatched. That’s partly because Brad’s been at it as long if not longer than she has, with as many if not more resources, but also because, well, gossip media is a reflection of our culture. And I don’t have to tell you which gender is advantaged in our culture.”

At Vulture: The Long Crazy Road to Crazy Rich Asians. This is a great and interesting look at the logistics behind getting a book made into a movie, among other things. And detail is insane and also profoundly unsurprising to me: “As Kwan remembers it, one interested producer proposed a specific change he felt would make the project more broadly commercial: Would Kwan consider changing the book’s protagonist Rachel Chu from Chinese-American to white?” (And because I suspect one of you will ask: Yes, the movie adaptation of The Royal We is allegedly still in development, but we have no control over any of it, and have less than no idea what’s happening there.)

Dolly Parton once said, “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap,” but even that doesn’t quite do Paul Manafort’s menswear purchases justice. So we got fashion legend André Leon Talley (@OfficialALT) to come by and critique Manafort’s style.